Nearly 18,000 sue Nassau for strip searches
Quick ReadU.S. District Judge Denis Hurley is hearing the accounts of people who were strip-searched at the county jail after being arrested for minor offenses.
Photo credit: Newsday File Image | A police recruit jogs around the Nassau County Jail.
Greg Wills of Bay Shore, just one of 17,700 people suing Nassau County for unspecified damages after he was unconstitutionally strip-searched at the Nassau County jail, told a federal judge this week he was stunned when a correction officer said he had to strip and be searched.
"You've got to be kidding," Wills, who was arrested in July 1996 on a misdemeanor, said he told the correction officer...
